Cultural Literature
CLAIMING EARTH: RACE, RAPE, RITUAL, RICHNESS IN AMERICA AND THE SEARCH FOR ENLIGHTENED EMPOWERMENT (COMING SOON)
An important handbook, this guide encourages nurturing people, both young and old, into Black consciousness and activism. Product details Publisher : Third World Press; First Edition (July 1, 1995) Language : English Paperback : 250 pages ISBN-10 : 0883780909 ISBN-13 : 978-0883780909 Item Weight : 13.4...
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LIGHT FROM ANCIENT AFRICA
Light from Ancient Africa is a critical contribution to what might be called the "Re-Africanization of Psychology Project." It was within this project that we came to realize that the notion of human psychology was and remains an African invention...In...
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BLACK PROPHETIC FIRE
In an accessible, conversational format, Cornel West, with distinguished scholar Christa Buschendorf, provides a fresh perspective on six revolutionary African American leaders: Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., Ella Baker, Malcolm X, and Ida B....
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NEWARK: A HISTORY OF RACE, RIGHTS, AND RIOTS IN AMERICA
Newark’s volatile past is infamous. The city has become synonymous with the Black Power movement and urban crisis. Its history reveals a vibrant and contentious political culture punctuated by traditional civic pride and an understudied tradition of protest in the...
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A MOUTH IS ALWAYS MUZZLED: SIX DISSIDENTS, FIVE CONTINENTS, AND THE ART OF RESISTANCE
As people consider how to respond to a resurgence of racist, xenophobic populism, A Mouth Is Always Muzzled tells an extraordinary story of the ways art brings hope in perilous times. Weaving disparate topics from sugar and British colonialism to attacks on...
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AFRICAN AMERICANS OF DURHAM & ORANGE COUNTIES: AN ORAL HISTORY (AMERICAN HERITAGE)
Durham and Orange Counties have vibrant and active African American communities. Throughout the region's unjust past, generations have shown extraordinary strength and resolve. Floyd McKissick became the first African American student at the University of North Carolina School of Law...
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AND STILL I RISE: BLACK AMERICA SINCE MLK
The companion book to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s PBS series, And Still I Rise—a timeline and chronicle of the past fifty years of black history in the U.S. in more than 350 photos. Beginning with the assassination of Malcolm X in...
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HIP-HOP ACTIVISM IN THE OBAMA ERA (COMING SOON)
Kitwana, author of the best-selling The Hip-Hop Generation, sits down with leadership of the five major national hip-hop organizations, a larger part of the force that is driving the innovative marriage between hip-hop and civic engagement—The League of Young Voters,...
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CUTTING ALONG THE COLOR LINE: BLACK BARBERS AND BARBER SHOPS IN AMERICA
Today, black-owned barber shops play a central role in African American public life. The intimacy of commercial grooming encourages both confidentiality and camaraderie, which make the barber shop an important gathering place for African American men to talk freely. But...
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KNOW WHAT I MEAN?: REFLECTIONS ON HIP HOP
Whether along race, class or generational lines, hip-hop music has been a source of controversy since the beats got too big and the voices too loud for the block parties that spawned them. America has condemned and commended this music...
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BLACK POWER AND THE GARVEY MOVEMENT
This provocative study examines the far-reaching influence of Marcus Garvey anthe Universal Negro Improvement Association. Theodore G. Vincent details UNIA’s origins and clarifies the many myths and controversies surrounding the organization and its founder. Initially written to explore the...
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ANOTHER DAY IN THE DEATH OF AMERICA: A CHRONICLE OF TEN SHORT LIVES
On an average day in America, seven children and teens will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during one such day. It could have been...
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ANOTHER DAY IN THE DEATH OF AMERICA: A CHRONICLE OF TEN SHORT LIVES
On an average day in America, seven children and teens will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during one such day. It could have been...
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FROM HEAD SHOPS TO WHOLE FOODS: THE RISE AND FALL OF ACTIVIST ENTREPRENEURS
In the 1960s and ’70s, a diverse range of storefronts―including head shops, African American bookstores, feminist businesses, and organic grocers―brought the work of the New Left, Black Power, feminism, environmentalism, and other movements into the marketplace. Through shared ownership, limited...
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BOUNDS OF THEIR HABITATION: RACE AND RELIGION IN AMERICAN HISTORY (AMERICAN WAYS)
There is an “American Way” to religion and race unlike anyplace else in the world, and the rise of religious pluralism in contemporary American (together with the continuing legacy of the racism of the past and misapprehensions in the present)...
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FATHERHOOD: RISING TO THE ULTIMATE CHALLENGE
In Fatherhood, beloved NBA player, poet, children’s advocate, and devoted dad Etan Thomas speaks from his heart on what matters most in his life: being there for his children. As a leading participant in President Obama’s Fatherhood Initiative, Etan has reached...
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MORE THAN JUST RACE: BEING BLACK AND POOR IN THE INNER CITY
In this timely and provocative contribution to the American discourse on race, William Julius Wilson applies an exciting new analytic framework to three politically fraught social problems: the persistence of the inner-city ghetto, the plight of low-skilled black males, and...
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BLACK FIRE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF AFRO-AMERICAN WRITING
The defining work of the Black Arts Movement, Black Fire is at once a rich anthology and an extraordinary source document. Nearly 200 selections, including poetry, essays, short stories, and plays, from over 75 cultural critics, writers, and political leaders, capture the...
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LET AMERICA BE AMERICA AGAIN
A newly-illustrated edition of the classic poem, used extensively by John Kerry is his Presidential campaign. World-renowned poet and master of prose Langston Hughes enlightened Americans nationwide when his poem "Let America Be America Again" appeared in 1936. Today, more than...
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JAY-Z: MADE IN AMERICA
"Dyson writes with the affection of a fan but the rigor of an academic. ... Using extensive passages from Jay-Z’s lyrics, 'Made in America' examines the rapper’s role as a poet, an aesthete, an advocate for racial justice and a...
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